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Welcome to the Forest Stewards Guild

The Forest Stewards Guild, has submitted comments on West Virginia Senate Bill 270 and House Bill 4182, which would revise State Park rules to permit commercial timber production. The Guild strongly oppose SB 270 and HB 4182 because they conflict with the key purpose and value of parks, push for timber harvest without stakeholder input, and attempt to legislate the complex process of forest management.

Are you interested in launching a women-focused woodland owner program, but aren’t sure what it might look like and how it would work?

Thanks to support from the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, the Sustaining Family Forests Initiative has funding available to offset travel related costs for aspiring WOW leaders to attend an existing WOW event to shadow and learn from the event organizer(s).

The Forest Stewards Guild invites students at the college or graduate level to apply for a paid summer internship to work on forest-related issues in New Mexico. Jump-start your career in forestry and positively influence natural resource and land management! Learn valuable skills and work with a motivated team of forestry professionals.

The USDA Forest Service has published a new report describing how climate change is expected to affect the 40 million acres of forest found in the Northeast. Maria Janowiak, deputy director of the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and lead author of the assessment, will present the major findings of the report and describe how forest managers can begin to consider climate change as part of their management planning and activities.

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Putting the Forest First

From our beginnings over thirty years ago, the Forest Stewards Guild has recognized that maintaining healthy, productive forests is the best investment we can make in promoting the wellbeing of people and forest communities. Our work includes hands-on forest stewardship, education and training, research, policy advocacy, and promoting professional practice – all based on high ethical standards and our unique mission of “putting the forest first.”